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Web 2.0 Distracts from Good Design

Posted by samzenpus on from the but-I-like-a-jumbled-mess dept.

stevedcc writes "The BBC is running a story about web 2.0 and usability, including comments from Jakob Nielsen stating "Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design". From the article: "He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served. Sites peppered with personalization tools were in danger of resembling the 'glossy but useless' sites at the height of the dotcom boom."

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  1. Old fashioned by andy666 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I stick to html, since everyone can read it (mostly). And I hand code it, since most of the editors seem to make a real mess of the code, and sometimes I want to change it. Anyone else this old fashioned ?

    1. Re:Old fashioned by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The point is, is that they don't want to make it possible. By making the resulting html not human readable, they lock you into using their application to edit it. So once you have hundreds of pages developed in dreamweaver, it's very hard to move away from using dreamweaver.

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      Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
  2. Nielsen a sellout by zakkie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nielsen is a sellout and has no credibility. Shortly after releasing his "Flash is 99% bad" work, Nielsen took money from Macromedia, and suddenly it's not so bad:
    http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html

    Usability includes being able to access the content without using proprietary software, Jakob!